Aki Kumar - God Bless the USA With Blues music there’s an age old conflict that quietly rages involving tradition and innovation. “That’s not Blues” vs “You’re doing the same thing over and over again” are the 2 defining mantras. Difficult to reference anybody who has ever [...]
Mariachi Mestizo XXV Anniversario The birthplace of the United Farm Workers, and his students are not only first-rate musicians, but high achievers in other ways, entering colleges like Harvard, UCLA, and Wellesley. But Mariachi Mestizo is first an extraordinary group because they make great music. Their newest [...]
All Things Swamp - Dressed With the New Orleans diaspora a fact of life on the West Coast, where the Cajun and Creole cultural invasion long ago firmly took root, California musicians often yearn to play the unique, flavorful beats of New Orleans music. All Things Swamp is [...]
Skip the Needle - Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up Skip The Needle is an Oakland-based queer female quartet made up of Bay Area superstars; Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown and Katie Cash who fashion punk, funk and soul influenced rock they like to call black dyke [...]
Kid Andersen -Spirits- & Lisa "Little Baby" Leuschner -Soul- Double Album Release We tend to attribute the unexplainable to magic and there’s a lot of magic in music. You can analyze melody, harmony and rhythm – it's all math, but there is more to music than formulas. [...]
Mighty Mike Schermer - The Legend of Michael Ray Pickens and his old Country Band The blues is a genre that notoriously demands its artists grind out lifelong careers before receiving even a small measure of success. In that respect you might think that 57-year-old songwriter and guitarist [...]
Jubu Smith - Juju Sought-after artist teams with Charlie Hunter for new album on Little Village Jubu Smith's journey in the music industry is a testament to his exceptional talent and versatility as a guitarist. At the age of 19, Jubu embarked on a remarkable decade-long tenure as [...]
Jp Soars - Brick By Brick Several years ago, blues-rocker Jp Soars became aware that he was building his audience one person at a time. He’d win a new fan, or several, every time he played and eventually he knew he could create a healthy career if [...]